Chief (Ret.)/President-CEO
Mycelium Design Group
Casper, Wyoming, United States
Jim Wetzel is Founder and CEO of Mycelium Design Group, a global strategic design and operations firm helping organizations transform to master complex challenges in dynamic emergent security and irregular warfare environments and create strategic and competitive advantage through multidisciplinary design applications. Jim is a retired sworn officer and Chief of Police with a law enforcement career spanning over 25 years. He is also a retired U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel serving over 28 years in the Marine Reconnaissance and U.S. Special Operations community.
Jim is a global practitioner, educator, and leader of strategic design, bridging deep operational and institutional experience with advanced innovation expertise to assist and deliver programs to a range of military/defense and public safety institutions and organizations worldwide. He is Adjunct Senior Faculty at USSOCOM’s Joint Special Operations University, Center for Adaptive & Innovative Statecraft; and serves as Course Director at the National Security Space Institute, managing and delivering the design and innovation education portfolios of USSPACECOM-sponsored courses.
How Innovative Strategic Design Frameworks Drive New Ways to Tackle Complex Security Challenges
Monday, October 20, 2025
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